MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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Stronger than silence
Norwegian singer-songwriter and activist Moddi will soon release an album which gives voice to singers whose works have been banned around the world. ANNE DOUGLAS reports
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
THE IDEA for the album Unsongs came to Moddi when he learned about an Israeli officer who refused to lead his forces into Beirut during the Lebanon war in 1982.
The song about Eli Geva, sung by Norwegian Birgitte Grimstad, had never been released due to being “too provocative” at the time.
“I was amazed to discover that one short song could convey so much history and still be unheard,” he says.
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